Sunday, March 28, 2010

Twelve Must Watch Movies of Mammotty

“Megastar” of Malluwood, Mammotty is an actor par excellence. Mammotty has done some memorable performance that every movie loving people across the world will cherish. It is tough to compile a list of twelve of Mammoty’s best but here is an earnest attempt to compile 12 of his must watch movies.

1 - Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha

One of the best movies to be made in Malayalam, for which, Mammotty got national award for the best actor. The movie tells the tales of warriors of ancient Kerala and Mammotty has enacted the role of Chandu to perfection. Here is one of the best scene from the movie.

2 –Thaniyavarthanam

Movie directed by Sibi Malayil and written by late Lohithadas is one of the master pieces of Mammotty. The story revolves around a family whose male members have a history of lunacy. Every one in his family and society considers Balan, a middle class school teacher enacted by Mammoty, as mad since one member from that family typically goes mad in each generation. There is so much life in this movie that you will cry watching this movie. Mammotty has not acted in this movie but lived the role of Balan.

3 – Yatra

When legends Balu Mahendra, Illayaraja and Mammotty join hands, the result will be an epic movie. That is movie Yatra for you that show the class of trio of Illayaraja, Balu Mahendra and Mammotty.

4 - Amaram

Mammotty as a fisherman, who live to see his daughter becoming a doctor. This movie made by great Bharatan brings out the best in Mammotty as an actor.

5 – Vidheyan

The film explores the master-slave dialectic in a South Karnataka setting. Mammotty won the National Award for best actor for enacting tyrannical landlord Bhaskara Pattelar.

6 - Sooryamanasam

In this film Mammotty acts as a mentally retarded - Putturumeese. Here is couple of nice scenes from this movie.

7 - Ponthenmada

Another movie that got Mammotty National Award for best actor. This movie directed by TV Chandran narrates the irrational bonding of the low-caste Ponthan Mada with his colonial landlord Sheema Thampuran.

8 - Mrigaya

Mammotty enacts the role of a hunter who comes to the village to end the tiger menace. The acting in this movie got Mammotty the state award for the best actor in 1989.

9 - Kazcha
Kazcha directed by Blessy narrates the story of Madhavan (Mammotty) and the bond of affection that develop with a boy who lost his parents in Gujarat earth quake. Mammotty was awarded the best actor award by the Kerala government.

10 - New Delhi
The movie that made Mammotty the superstar of Malayalam movie. In this movie, directed by Joshi Mammoty plays the role of a newspaper editor who exposes the various corruption happening in the society.

Not only Mammotty can act in such great movies, he can act in mass movies also.That is why he reigns as the megastar of Malayalam movies. Here is a couple of his super hit movie as a superstar.

1 - The King

One of the best action movies of Mammotty. Mammotty acts as an IAS officer fighting against the ills of the society. Directed by Shaji Kailas and written by Ranji Paniker, this movie is known for this electrifying dialogues like this one.

2 – Rajamanikam

Another superhit - the movie where he uses the dialect of Trivandrum. One of the very few comedy movies Mammotty has acted.

I think it is better to expand the list to 20 otherwise it will be too much of an injustice to many other movies.

I think Rajamanikyam and King need to be in the list because both of them are fantastic performances which probably has no preceding models. They are trendsetting performances. Although the dialogue delivery was the highlight of both of them, the body language he carries throughout the movie is par excellence.

I think Kazcha need not be in the list of even top 20. He did full justice to the role but the role did not demand anything extraordinary; underplaying with ease was demonstrated better by Mammootty in other movies like Kaiyoppu...

I think it is better to expand the list to 20 otherwise it will be too much of an injustice to many other movies.

I think Rajamanikyam and King need to be in the list because both of them are fantastic performances which probably has no preceding models. They are trendsetting performances. Although the dialogue delivery was the highlight of both of them, the body language he carries throughout the movie is par excellence.

I think Kazcha need not be in the list of even top 20. He did full justice to the role but the role did not demand anything extraordinary; underplaying with ease was demonstrated better by Mammootty in other movies like Kaiyoppu...

Mrigaya, New Delhi (You think its not a mass movie, but a classic?), Sooryamanasam, King and Rajamanikkam doesnt deserve to be in the list.I think Nirakkootu was a key movie in Mammooty's career. Avanazhi as well.Although not great movies, Mammoty-Baby Shalini starers played a major role in building his career. So did Mammoty-Rahman (Rahman as his younger brother ofcourse and with a motorbike in the role his sidekick) & Mammoty-Baby Shalini-Rahman combination. They were all the rage at that time. Many of them are better than New Delhi, King or Rajamanikkam. Ithiripoove Chuvannapoove (Bharathan) is an example.